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Family VII. NYMPHALIDjE. 



[Body more or less robust. 

 Head of moderate size. 



Eyes large, generally naked. 



Labial Palpi large, generally obliquely porrected, extending considerably in front of the head, wide 

 apart, generally clothed with scales, with the front edge broadly dilated ; the basal joint generally 

 curved, and furnished beneath with a tuft of hairs ; the terminal joint small and slender. 



Antennae generally rather long, and terminated by a broad or elongated club. 

 Thorax large. 

 Wings large, often greatly variegated in the colours, and marked beneath with ocellated spots. 



Fore Wings generally more or less triangular, with the discoidal cell closed by slender disco-cellular 

 veins : veins not dilated at the base ; the postcostal vein emitting four branches, exclusive of the 

 terminal portion of the vein, which has sometimes been regarded as a fifth branch, the first 

 and second branches generally arising before the anterior extremity of the discoidal cell, and the 

 third and fourth at equal distances apart between the extremity of the cell and the tip of the 

 wing. 



Hind Wings generally broadly ovate, rarely furnished in the males with tufts of hair ; the outer 

 margin often more or less deeply scalloped or dentated, the anal margin forming a deep groove 

 for the reception of the abdomen ; not furnished at the base with a prtediscoidal cell ; the pre- 

 costal vein short and arched ; the discoidal cell of moderate length, generally closed by slender 

 disco-cellular veins. 



Fore Legs short, and not fitted for walking ; the tibia and tarsus of the male often clothed at the 

 sides with a fringe of fine hairs, forming a flattened brush ; the tarsus consisting of a single elon- 

 gated joint, obtuse at the top, and destitute of ungues ; the fore legs of the female generally rather 

 longer, with the tarsus rather dilated at the extremity, where it is more or less distinctly ob- 

 liquely articulated ; the articulations, as well as the tip of the tarsus, armed beneath with short 

 spines. 



Hind Legs long, with the tibiae armed with two spurs at the tip, and the underside of the tibia and 

 tarsus armed with rows of short spines. 



Ungues simple, acute, curved ; paronychia large, bifid, setose, leathery ; the outer division largest ; 

 pulvillus dilated. 



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